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Criminals can hack baby monitors says security service

Cyber criminals could access smart cameras and baby monitors if left unsecured, warns the National Cyber Security Centre.

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R&D roundup: soft 3D printing, backscatter Wi-Fi and other bleeding-edge tech

I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of

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FCC proposes $200M in fines for wireless carriers that sold your location for years

The FCC has officially and finally determined that the major wireless carriers in the U.S. broke the law by secretly selling subscribers’ location data for years with almost no constraints or di

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Huawei to build wireless product plant in France

Huawei on Thursday announced a 200-million-euro (219.88-million-U.S. dollar) investment plan to build in France a new wireless communications product factory specializ

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Senate passes ‘rip and replace’ bill to remove old Huawei and ZTE equipment from networks

The U.S. Senate today voted unanimously to pass the Secure and Trusted Telecommunications Networks Act. Written as a response to recent concerns around Chinese hardware

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Mirantis co-founder launches FreedomFi to bring private LTE networks to enterprises

Boris Renski, the co-founder of Mirantis, one of the earliest and best-funded players in the OpenStack space a few years ago (which then mostly pivoted to Kubernetes and DevOps), has left his role a

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Microsoft offers a closer look at the next Xbox

It’s been a few months since Microsoft announced the impending arrival of the Xbox Series X. The somewhat redundantly named console made cameo during the Game Awards, getting a late 2020 date in the p

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China's telecom operators speed up 5G construction to counter virus

Leading telecom operator China Unicom said Sunday that it will work with China Telecom to finish construction on 250,000 5G base stations across the country by the end of the third quarter.The dea

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Escalation of decoupling divides the world

Huawei Technologies Co. logo is displayed on a glass wall in front of a cloud computing and server display in the exhibition hall at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China, March 6, 2019. /VCG

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T-Mobile, Sprint amend merger terms; to close deal as early as April 1

Smartphones with the logos of T-Mobile and Sprint are seen in this illustration taken September 19, 2017. /Reuters T- Mobile U.S. and Sprint Corp said on Thursday that they had agreed on new m

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The Owl of Minerva flies East

A security barricade is placed in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, December 22, 2018. /Reuters Editor's note:James Rae is a professor from California State University Sacramento. H

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Sling TV reports first-ever subscriber decline

Increased competition from competitors like Hulu and YouTube TV and even Netflix has finally taken its toll on Dish’s live TV streaming service, Sling TV. This week, the company reported its fir

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U.S. allies showing their true evaluation of Huawei risks

Editor's note: Chris Hawke is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a journalist who has reported for over two decades from Beijing, New York, the United Nations, Tokyo, Ban

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Microsoft’s game streaming service Project xCloud launches in preview on iOS

Last year, Microsoft launched a preview of Project xCloud, its ambitious game streaming service that aims to deliver games to any screen — console, PC, or mobile. However, the service until now

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SoftBank Group quarterly profit wiped out by Vision Fund losses

VCG Photo SoftBank Group Corp reported a near-total wipe out in quarterly profit on Wednesday after the Japanese technology investor was whiplashed for a second consecutive quarter by losses a

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Sprint/T-Mobile merger gets federal judge approval

The U.S. mobile landscape is on track to look a whole lot different. A hotly contested $26 billion deal between T-Mobile and Sprint just got the go ahead from a U.S. district court judge. The merger w

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Samsung’s very good Galaxy Buds get much better battery life

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds have been one of the low-key success stories of the current bluetooth earbud revolution. They don’t have the flash of an AirPod, but they get the mix of form and function just ri